Ep. 56 | She Haunts Me
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In the late 1800s, a young man in rural New England comes down with a deadly illness known as “the White Death.” When his doctor can’t help, the man’s neighbors propose a bizarre treatment… that involves the supernatural.
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| 0:07.8 | In the early spring of 1892, an older woman in a tiny Rhode Island town |
| 0:18.9 | shuffled into her kitchen at 1 a.m. to make a late night cup of tea. |
| 0:22.4 | And as she passed by her front window, she saw a man riding on horseback down the dirt road outside holding up a flickering lantern. |
| 0:29.7 | She recognized this man. He was the only doctor in town and she could tell he was headed towards a large farm at the end of the road. |
| 0:36.0 | And the woman had heard rumors that the farmer's son was deathly ill. |
| 0:40.0 | She knew a house call in the middle of the night was not a good sign, but she also knew the doctor could not save the farmer's son. |
| 0:48.0 | However, she could, so she threw in her coat, let her own lantern, and set off into the night. |
| 0:57.0 | From Ballin Studios and Wundry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's medical mysteries, |
| 1:08.0 | where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape, our own bodies. |
| 1:15.5 | And for this week's special Halloween episode, we're exploring something even more terrifying, |
| 1:19.9 | the supernatural. For centuries, people believe that monsters, demons, and other horrors |
| 1:25.3 | could cause deadly diseases in all kinds of misery. Nowadays we tend to reject those explanations |
| 1:30.4 | as ignorance and superstition, but for one New England farming family in the 1800s, |
| 1:36.0 | that distinction wasn't so clear. Were they being plagued by a mysterious disease, |
| 1:41.0 | or were they actually being preyed on by a creature thought only to exist in legend. |
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